3. Ahmad ibn Mihran has narrated from Muhammad ibn Ali from Muhammad ibn Sinan and Isma‘il ibn ‘Abbad al-Qasri, all from Dawud al-Raqqi who has said the following.

“I said to abu Ibrahim , ‘May Allah take my soul in service for your cause, I have become old, take my hand out of fire.” The narrator has said that the Imam pointed to his son, abu al-Hassan and then said, “This is your guardian after me.”